and they’ll be doing as much walking as possible after experiencing my first car ride since arriving in Egypt. I knew it would be chaotic and that no one followed any rules of the road except “me first,” but I was thoroughly traumatized.
I hesitate to share this video because it doesn’t look nearly as crazy as it was in person. Remember, you’re only seeing what is directly in front — not all the crazy people who were practically scraping my passenger door or riding up on our bumper.
how I really felt about it:
I was positive that somebody was going to die: either me, or one of the people strolling across 5 lanes of traffic like they were shopping at a mall. If i were handing out an award for the stupidest human, it would have to go to the dude who was striding across the freeway at night in a long black robe, holding his hand up confidently like that was going to stop all the cars flying by at 35 miles an hour. And the luckiest dude of the day was the one on a scooter who was driving inches from our passenger front fender who almost ran into the car that stopped suddenly in front of him, almost dumping his helmetless body right in the path of our Jeep. *shudder*
I think I might need to take one of my special yellow pills before our next excursion . . . if Josh can convince me to get back in the car. On the bright side, I don’t think I’ll be afraid to fly anymore. 🙂